Phillip Serna Email & Phone Number

Phillip W. Serna has performed on double bass with numerous Midwest ensembles such as the the 5th Wave Collective, Camerata Chicago, Chicago Wind Symphony, EChO – the Evanston Chamber Opera Company, Illinois Philharmonic, Illinois Symphony, Lake Forest Symphony, the Naperville Winds, New Philharmonic, Northwest Indiana Symphony, South Bend Symphony, Southwest Michigan Symphony, the Zohn Collective, and many others. ​Over the last decade he ​has emerged among the nation’s leading advocates of the viol – the viola da gamba. Co-founding Black Tulip, New Comma Baroque, ViolMedium and the Spirit of Gambo - a Chicago Consort of Viols, he’s collaborated with a myriad of distinguished historical-performance ensembles, most notably the Aperi Animam, Bella Voce Sinfonia, Burning River Baroque, the Chicago Early Music Consort, Just Bach, L’Ensemble Portique, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Les Touches, the Newberry Consort, Second City Musick, and many others. He can be heard on WFMT Chicago, Wisconsin Public Radio, Milwaukee Public Radio, and on releases from Clarion, Cedille, Varèse Sarabande Recordsas well as as well as Midweſt415, the newest Chicago-area independent Early Music & New Music record label focused on Historically-Informed Performance Practice on period instruments. As a champion of a variety of new works for the viol, Dr. Serna performed the U.S. premieres of Rudolph Dolmetsch’s Concertino for Viola da Gamba & Small Orchestra in 2012, Carl Friedrich Abel's Concerto Violo de Gambo in 2018 as well as being the 1st American gambist to perform ALL of Telemann’s ​once-lost 1735 Viola da Gamba Fantasias in 2017​ - the 250th anniversary of Telemann's death. Holding Masters and Doctoral degrees from Northwestern University, Phillip teaches at Valparaiso University, North Central College, Elgin Community College, formerly at the Music Institute of Chicago and as assistant director of Illinois’ first public-school period-instrument program at Adlai E. Stevenson High School. Phillip has served on the faculties of the Madison Early Music Festival, the Whitewater Early Music Festival, and is the music director of Viols in Our Schools earning him Early Music America’s 2010 Laurette Goldberg Award for lifetime achievement in Early Music outreach.For more information on Phillip Serna, please visit https://ffm.bio/phillipwserna.

Listed skills include Chamber Music, Orchestral Music, Music, Double Bass, and 46 others.